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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly 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. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Swaziland to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a developing need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational ventures. Academics want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This definitive new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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