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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in electronic educational technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider today because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Washington to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Everyone wants to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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