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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology have enabled humans in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Somaliland to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also deals with the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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