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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in online education technology have enabled humans all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations are having to consider now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Abkhazia to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also deals with the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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