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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in electronic education technology are making it possible for learners all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Kentucky to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to better understand these important new open education endeavours. People want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also talks about 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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