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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online education have empowered students in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like California Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these compelling new open educational experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this growing desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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