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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in elearning have enabled humans all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with now that learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Pennsylvania State University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. People want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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