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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in e-learning enable people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that e-learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also addresses the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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