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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest advances in technology-enhanced learning are making it possible for people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many issues that online education organizations are dealing with more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Senegal to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage low student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Public servants want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also researches the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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