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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in distance learning technology are enabling students in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these new open educational undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to perceive how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desire for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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