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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in distance learning technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Ohio State University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This book also researches the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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