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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education enable people all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also talks about the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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