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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern developments in e-learning technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education institutions are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also articulates 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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