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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in e-learning technology are enabling humans in nations all aver the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scientists want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this crescive demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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