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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education have enabled people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Michigan to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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