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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in e-learning have enabled humans in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are several subjects that online learning institutions are having to consider today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Pakistan to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This book also addresses the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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