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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest changes in online education technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to take courses online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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