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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online learning make it possible for learners in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC classes are customarily free 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 a lot of issues that online learning organizations have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive need for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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