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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in distance learning technology enable students all around the world to take online courses. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can we assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Trainers want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also explores the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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