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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in elearning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are struggling with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Universities want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this demand for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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