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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in elearning technology are empowering students all over the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are considering more than ever because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like Kingman Reef to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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