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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in electronic educational technology enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning 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 quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to better perceive these significant new open educational experiments. People want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this increasing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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