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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in digital education technology have empowered students all around the world to participate in online classes. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is developing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Minnesota to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these open educational undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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