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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in e-learning technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are normally free 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 distance learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Italy to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a developing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational initiatives. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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