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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in learning technology enable people all over the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach 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 Canvas Network to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Universities want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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