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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online learning technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations have to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a need to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these important new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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