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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in elearning are enabling learners all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are struggling with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators make sure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Open2Study to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better perceive these significant new open education experiments. Students want to understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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