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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because online 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 be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Educators want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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