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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in distance learning technology are making it possible for people all over the world to participate in courses online. These massive open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations have to consider now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these intriguing new open education ventures. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this growing demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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