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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in distance learning have empowered people all around the world to be participants in online classes. These online MOOCs are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle low motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants want to better comprehend these compelling new open educational initiatives. Students want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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