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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in online learning have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions have to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this expanding desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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