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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online learning have empowered people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders certify that the training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Croatia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to better understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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