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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in e-learning technology make it possible for people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are normally free for students 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 numerous topics that online learning organizations are considering today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is passable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like French Polynesia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open educational ventures. Everyone wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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