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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in online learning are enabling students all over the world to take online courses. These online MOOCs are customarily free but do not consistently 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 quite a few topics that elearning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this need for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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