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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern developments in online learning technology have made it possible for people in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning organizations are dealing with now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also describes the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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