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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New developments in elearning have provided the means for students all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Guyana to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of these fascinating new open education experiments. Professors want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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