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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online learning have empowered people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology institutions have to consider now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Colorado System to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational ventures. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this increasing desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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