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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in elearning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOCs are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can we ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scientists want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This definitive new book also considers the major 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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