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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education enable people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that e-learning institutions are considering today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by organizations like Gabon to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these open education ventures. Students want to understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this desire for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also explores the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Educational Resources