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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in elearning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education initiatives. Instructors want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this growing demand for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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