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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in digital education technology are providing the means for learners in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology organizations have to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor motivation and high student attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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