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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in online education are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of these important new open education endeavours. Instructors want to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also researches the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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