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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New developments in e-learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations have to deal with now that distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Mauritania to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Educators want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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