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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in electronic education technology are empowering people all over the world to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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