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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest developments in learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOC classes are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Researchers want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this expanding need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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