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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in distance learning have empowered people all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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