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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in elearning technology are making it possible for humans all over the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we certify that the quality control for these MOOCs is all right? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? 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 organizations like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to better understand these fascinating new open education experiments. Scientists want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This new book also talks about the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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