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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in distance learning technology have made it possible for people all around the world to take online classes. MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that e-learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? 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 Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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