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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in electronic education technology have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations are dealing with today because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like India to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education initiatives. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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