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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in electronic education technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Hong Kong to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these important new open educational experiments. Students want to understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing demand for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education topics. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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