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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in online education technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning institutions are having to attend to 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 educators assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Ecuador to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to better perceive these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This amazing new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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