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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology enable learners all around the world to participate in online courses. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. Massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online education organizations are having to attend to now that learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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