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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic educational technology are providing the means for students in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology organizations are having to consider now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive these compelling new open education ventures. Instructors want to better understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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