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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in digital education technology are enabling people all over the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning institutions have to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This sensational new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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