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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New changes in distance learning have provided the means for people all around the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC classes are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can we ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this crescive demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This book also researches the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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