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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in elearning technology are enabling people all over the world to take courses online. These MOOC classes are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like French Polynesia to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle low motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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