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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in distance learning technology are enabling humans all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that online learning institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp these promising new open educational initiatives. Instructors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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