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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online education are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that elearning technology organizations are considering today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to better perceive these significant new open educational endeavours. Scholars want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This inspiring new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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