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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in elearning technology enable learners all around the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOC courses are free 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 several topics that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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