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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in e-learning technology have provided the means for learners in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? 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 University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education undertakings. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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