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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New changes in online learning are enabling people all over the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are typically 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 variety of issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like Senegal to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and many other participants want to better grasp these promising new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to grasp how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this growing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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