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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in technology-enhanced learning have enabled students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can educators certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC 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 institutions like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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