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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online learning technology have empowered students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Israel to conduct these massively open online courses? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Academics want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also studies the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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