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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in e-learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Universities want to perceive how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also studies the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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