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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in e-learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning institutions are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants need to better understand these open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Intellectuals want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also explores the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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