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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in online education have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are having to deal with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is all right? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Reddit to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants want to be more aware of these promising new open education undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Trainers want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This thrilling new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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