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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online learning are enabling people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations must deal with now that distance learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. People want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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