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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in online education are providing the means for students in nations all aver the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology institutions have to consider 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 organizations be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Albania to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Professors want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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