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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions are having to consider in 2015 because online education technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand these significant new open educational experiments. Instructors want to perceive how these MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This thrilling new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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