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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in e-learning technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in online classes. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These online MOOC courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions have to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators ensure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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