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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in elearning have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning technology organizations are having to consider now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Israel to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational experiments. Scientists want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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