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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in online education have provided the means for learners in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever 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 institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education undertakings. Corporations want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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