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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in learning technology make it possible for people all over the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants need to better understand these promising new open educational ventures. Everybody wants to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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