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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in elearning are empowering learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is adequate? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Educators want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also explores the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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