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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in elearning technology enable people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations are having to attend to now that online education technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? How can institutions manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also explores the 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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