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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in learning technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As elearning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Students want to know how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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