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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in distance learning have provided the means for learners in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These MOOC classes are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like CaltechX to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants need to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this expanding desideratum for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also researches the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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