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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in e-learning are empowering learners in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations must deal with more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Emory University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational undertakings. People want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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