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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online education technology enable learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can institutions make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Students want to know how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this developing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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