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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in elearning are empowering students all over the world to take part in online courses. These online MOOCs are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that online education institutions are having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage problems like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to understand these fascinating new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this increasing need for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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