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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online education are providing the means for learners in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. This MOOCs book also analyzes the motivational variables involved in self-directed learning experiences. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can participants be assured 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 strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This book also explores the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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