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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in distance learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are typically 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 several issues that online learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Korea, North to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these important new open educational experiments. Educators want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This thrilling new book also examines 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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