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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in e-learning have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are usually free for learners 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations are struggling with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants need to be more aware of these promising new open education endeavours. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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