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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest evolvements in electronic educational technology have enabled students all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations must deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like UWashingtonX to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Teachers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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