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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online learning technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these open education endeavours. Intellectuals want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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