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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in learning technology have made it possible for students in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations have to consider today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also describes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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