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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in distance learning have enabled learners all over the world to take courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning institutions have to struggle with now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. 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 MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Portugal to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this demand for knowledge the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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