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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in distance learning technology enable people all around the world to take online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations have to consider now that e-learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Mayotte to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Educators want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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