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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in online learning technology make it possible for people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions make sure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can organizations make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants need to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this growing need for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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