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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in digital education technology have provided the means for humans all over the world to be participants in online classes. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage problems like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to understand these new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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