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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in distance learning technology have empowered students all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like French Polynesia to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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