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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online learning make it possible for people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Students want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this desire for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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