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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic education technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take online classes. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning organizations are dealing with now that online education technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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