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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in digital education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. MOOC classes are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning institutions are having to consider now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Haiti to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Universities want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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