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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in e-learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are dealing with today because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education ventures. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive need for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also considers the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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