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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in e-learning technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions are having to deal with today because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Cuba to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Public servants want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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