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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advances in distance learning technology have made it possible for learners all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Instructors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing desire for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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