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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in electronic educational technology are enabling humans all over the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning institutions are having to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Instructors want to understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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