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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education technology are making it possible for people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are several topics that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Great Basin College to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to know how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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