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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in online education have provided the means for people all around the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations are struggling with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like YouTube to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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