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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest developments in e-learning are empowering humans all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Trainers want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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