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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in elearning have made it possible for people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education ventures. Everybody wants to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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