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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 (MOOC). Recent changes in online education have made it possible for people in nations all aver the world to participate in online courses. These MOOCs are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with today because learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Mayotte to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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