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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in distance learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these important new open educational experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also considers the 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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