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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions have to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with low motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Trainers want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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