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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in electronic education technology have enabled humans all over the world to take classes via the Internet. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Educators want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing demand for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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