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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in e-learning make it possible for people all over the world to take part in online classes. These massive open courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions certify that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Cape Verde to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better perceive these open education experiments. Public servants want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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