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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in learning technology have empowered humans all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by organizations like Turkey to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to better grasp these intriguing new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To satisfy this increasing desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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