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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in learning technology have enabled students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning organizations have to consider now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations certify that the quality of these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Senegal to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Trainers want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this growing desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also articulates the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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