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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online education are enabling people in nations all around the world to take courses online. MOOCs are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? 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 NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As elearning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this developing demand for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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