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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in online learning technology have made it possible for humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are numerous issues that elearning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing demand for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This book also addresses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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