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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider now that online education technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Malaysia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational undertakings. Educators want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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