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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online learning have made it possible for learners all around the world to take online classes. These MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? 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 institutions like Micronesia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to understand these new open education ventures. Students want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also studies the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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