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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in elearning technology have made it possible for people all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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