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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New developments in online education are enabling students all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Svalbard to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education undertakings. Intellectuals want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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