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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in e-learning technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This inspiring new book also considers the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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