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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in distance learning technology have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. These online MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like American College of Education to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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