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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new evolvements in elearning are enabling people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that e-learning institutions are considering today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Peru to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Trainers want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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