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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in distance learning technology have empowered students in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing need for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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