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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in learning technology have empowered humans in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Vanderbilt University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these new open educational experiments. Educators want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for information 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 issues. This dramatic new book also addresses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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