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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in learning technology enable students all around the world to be participants in online classes. These online MOOC courses are usually 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 lot of topics that online learning organizations are considering in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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