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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning technology have enabled people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations have to consider more than ever because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to understand these promising new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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