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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in online learning have empowered people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Elidaemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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