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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in learning technology have enabled students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desideratum for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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