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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning are making it possible for learners in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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