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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in elearning enable students in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions must deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? 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 institutions like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a developing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also studies the key 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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