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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in technology-enhanced learning are empowering people all around the world to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Paraguay to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Educators want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This interesting new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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