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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online education have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take online courses. These MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Public servants want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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