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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in technology-enhanced learning are making it possible for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like Concordia University Wisconsin to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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