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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in distance learning enable humans all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is all right? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Ireland to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing need for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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