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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in online education technology are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we make sure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and lots of other participants want to better comprehend these significant new open educational ventures. Teachers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also studies the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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