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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in elearning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Students want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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