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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in online learning have empowered learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few subjects that elearning organizations are having to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators make sure that the quality control for these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like Wellesley College to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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