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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online education technology have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Sri Lanka to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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