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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in elearning enable students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing desire for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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