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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in distance learning are enabling people all around the world to take online classes. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these open education initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Professors want to perceive how these MOOCs can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This thrilling new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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