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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest changes in distance learning technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take classes online. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology institutions are considering in 2015 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 stakeholders be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like Wellesley College to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This interesting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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