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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning enable students all over the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning institutions are considering today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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