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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in distance learning technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in online classes. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Korea, North to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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