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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in electronic education technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that e-learning institutions are struggling with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education undertakings. Scholars want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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