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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest evolvements in online education have enabled people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Greenland to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these fascinating new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desire for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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