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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest advancements in distance learning technology have provided the means for humans all over the world to take part in classes online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to now that learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp these open education experiments. Universities want to perceive how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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