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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in distance learning technology make it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning institutions are considering today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to better perceive these promising new open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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