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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in blended learning technology enable people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions are struggling with more than ever because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses 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 British Virgin Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also deals with the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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