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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in online learning have provided the means for humans all over the world to be participants in classes online. MOOC courses are customarily 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 numerous topics that e-learning institutions are having to consider now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Midway Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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