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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in e-learning are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by institutions like The University of Chicago to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to better grasp these open education experiments. Professors want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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