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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in online education technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These MOOC classes are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these MOOCs is decent? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage problems like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to better perceive these fascinating new open education experiments. Students want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This inspiring new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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