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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in distance learning technology make it possible for people in nations all aver the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are almost always free 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 quite a few issues that learning technology institutions have to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Palau to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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