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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in online education enable humans all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of topics that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and lots of other participants want to better understand these significant new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to perceive how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this developing desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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