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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are struggling with today because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Kentucky to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to be more aware of these significant new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this growing desire for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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