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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning have enabled people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many subjects that distance learning organizations must deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Vanderbilt University to conduct these massively open online courses? How can teachers deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend these interesting new open education ventures. Intellectuals want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This sensational 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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