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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in distance learning enable people all over the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the training provided by these MOOC courses is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Kazakhstan to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational ventures. Intellectuals want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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