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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in digital education technology enable students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly 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 quite a few subjects that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like French Southern and Antarctic Lands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants would like to better grasp these new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This sensational new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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