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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in e-learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take online classes. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations are having to deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Educational Resources