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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online learning technology are making it possible for people all over the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations are considering today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators certify that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Wallis and Futuna to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Scholars want to perceive how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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