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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in elearning technology are enabling students in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily 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 several subjects that online education institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can participants assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like French Polynesia to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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