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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in online education technology enable people all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC classes are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Université Numérique France Université Numérique to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to better grasp these new open education endeavours. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this desire for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also explores the key 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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