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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in e-learning are providing the means for students in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants certify that the education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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