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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online learning have empowered people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this growing desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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