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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology have made it possible for learners in all parts of the world to take part in classes online. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants make sure that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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