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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in e-learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants would like to understand these significant new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also explores the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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