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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC classes are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology institutions are considering more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Wallis and Futuna to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these new open education initiatives. Scholars want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desideratum for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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