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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in electronic educational technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily 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 numerous topics that distance learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more available there is a growing necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational initiatives. Instructors want to perceive how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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