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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning are providing the means for students in all parts of the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to better grasp these promising new open education undertakings. Universities want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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