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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in e-learning have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Faroe Islands to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle poor student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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