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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in digital education technology enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to understand these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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