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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online education are providing the means for people all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Ohio State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on low student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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