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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in distance learning technology have empowered humans all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to understand these promising new open education endeavours. Public servants want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This amazing new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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