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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in e-learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to take courses online. These MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many issues that online learning institutions have to consider more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. People want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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