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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in e-learning technology have made it possible for learners all around the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers 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 business strategies are being used by institutions like The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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