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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in elearning are providing the means for people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. People want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also researches the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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