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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in e-learning have provided the means for people all around the world to take part in classes online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants certify that the quality control for these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open educational initiatives. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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