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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in electronic educational technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Korea, South to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Universities want to comprehend how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this expanding demand for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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