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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in digital education technology have enabled people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Teachers want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this increasing need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This book also investigates the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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