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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in distance learning technology are empowering people all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations are struggling with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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