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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning technology make it possible for people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp these interesting new open educational initiatives. Educators want to perceive how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Educational Resources