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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advancements in elearning are enabling students all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC classes are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are having to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders make sure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive need for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This exciting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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