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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in e-learning make it possible for humans all over the world to take part in online classes. Massive open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Trainers want to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also describes the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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