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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in electronic educational technology are enabling students all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Svalbard to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Students want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing demand for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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