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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in online education are empowering people in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC classes are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Singapore to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Academics want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also describes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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