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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning enable learners all around the world to participate in online courses. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of topics that e-learning institutions must deal with now that online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like American Samoa to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a developing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education undertakings. Universities want to grasp how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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