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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning are providing the means for humans all over the world to take part in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This book also talks about the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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