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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in e-learning enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning technology institutions are having to consider today because online education technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is adequate? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also analyzes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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