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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in digital education technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are dealing with now that online education technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? 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 Hungary to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education undertakings. Intellectuals want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also addresses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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