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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online education have empowered people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are considering in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage poor motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also explores the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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