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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in online education technology have provided the means for learners all around the world to participate in classes online. These massive open online courses are free for learners but do not 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 are struggling with today because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Tunisia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this demand for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also deals with the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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