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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online education have empowered learners all over the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many topics that online education organizations are dealing with today because online education technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Hong Kong to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this increasing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also studies the most important 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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