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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in elearning technology are enabling humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open educational undertakings. Universities want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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