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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in elearning have enabled humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also talks about the key 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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