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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online learning technology have made it possible for learners in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few topics that elearning organizations are having to struggle with now that online education technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This book also articulates the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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