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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in digital education technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to take classes online. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing need for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also deals with the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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