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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like California Institute of the Arts to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to understand these open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this developing demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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