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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in e-learning are empowering people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are struggling with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can students make sure that teachers 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 strategies are being used by organizations like Belarus to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This inspiring new book also investigates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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