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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest gains in distance learning have enabled people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations have to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Svalbard to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Students want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this demand for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting 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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