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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in online education technology are enabling people all around the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are normally free but do not 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 education institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by organizations like University of Minnesota to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a desire to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants need to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Universities want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also articulates 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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