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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in online education have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also studies the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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