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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in online education are providing the means for humans all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Miriada X to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can institutions handle issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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