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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in electronic education technology are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is good? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like The Pennsylvania State University to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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