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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in e-learning are enabling students all around the world to participate in online classes. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that elearning technology organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This new book also researches the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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