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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Northwestern University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational initiatives. Corporations want to better understand 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 MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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