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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in online learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more available there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend these significant new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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