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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions must deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can teachers handle problems like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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