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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in elearning are enabling people all over the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students 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 many issues that online learning organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like French Guiana to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better understand these interesting new open education initiatives. Scholars want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This book also examines the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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