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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in e-learning are providing the means for people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about these new open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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