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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in online learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many topics that elearning institutions have to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the quality control for these massive open online courses is adequate? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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