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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education enable people all over the world to participate in classes online. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning organizations are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Peninsula College to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants need to better grasp these exciting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This book also explores the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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