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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education have made it possible for learners all over the world to take part in classes online. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers 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 strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to understand these fascinating new open educational experiments. Professors want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This gripping new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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