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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest changes in online education make it possible for humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can we assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants want to be more aware of these promising new open education endeavours. Corporations want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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