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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores subjects related to open education resources and massively open online courses. New developments in online learning enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These MOOC classes are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations are struggling with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by institutions like Wake Island to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more available there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational experiments. Educators want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this expanding desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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