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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in e-learning technology enable people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Irvine to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Educational Resources