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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online learning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this crescive need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This sensational new book also addresses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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