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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in elearning technology have empowered people all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Educators want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing demand for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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