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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in elearning technology have empowered humans in nations all around the world to take courses online. These massive open courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. 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 assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these open educational undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This book also deals with the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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