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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in distance learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. 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 MOOC classes are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Professors want to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing demand for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also considers the most important 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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