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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online learning enable people in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. 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 massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these important new open education endeavours. Scholars want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also talks about the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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