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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in digital education technology are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions make sure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Czech Republic to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this developing demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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