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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology institutions are considering in 2015 because learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Peninsula College to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational ventures. Professors want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also explores the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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