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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advancements in electronic educational technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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