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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New developments in learning technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations must deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to better grasp these exciting new open educational undertakings. People want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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