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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in electronic education technology have enabled humans all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC classes are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? 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 Macedonia to conduct these massively open online courses? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational ventures. Professors want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This inspiring new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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