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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in e-learning have empowered people in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology institutions are having to consider today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by institutions like Meetup to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this growing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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