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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education have empowered learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These online MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many subjects that learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is all right? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. People want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desideratum for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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