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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. New changes in online education have empowered people in nations all aver the world to participate in online classes. These massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education institutions are having to deal with now that online education technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Czech Republic to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to better understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this developing demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Education