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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education technology are empowering people all over the world to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several topics that distance learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these open educational undertakings. People want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also investigates the major controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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