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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in online learning enable humans all over the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Relay Graduate School of Education to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants get a handle on low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of these important new open educational experiments. Scientists want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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