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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Rice University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This book also explores the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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