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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology enable people all around the world to take part in online classes. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are several issues that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Argentina to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to understand these open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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