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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in elearning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that e-learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Benin to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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