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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in e-learning enable people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with now that distance learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Sudan to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants need to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational undertakings. Trainers want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This inspiring new book also discusses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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