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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in e-learning technology have empowered people all around the world to take part in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC classes are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions are considering more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants certify that the education provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Spain to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also explores the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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