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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in learning technology enable people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Laos to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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