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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education have empowered students in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are struggling with today because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a developing need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational ventures. Researchers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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