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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Educators want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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