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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in e-learning technology are empowering humans all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Houston System to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can we handle low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this need for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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