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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in technology-enhanced learning have empowered people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online education organizations must deal with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Rwaq to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to better understand these important new open education experiments. Public servants want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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