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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in distance learning have empowered learners all over the world to take part in courses online. MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like Rice University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational initiatives. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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