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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in elearning enable learners in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Wellesley College to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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