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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in distance learning technology have empowered people all around the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Portugal to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding demand for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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