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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in elearning are empowering students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning institutions have to struggle with now that distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these new open educational experiments. Scientists want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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