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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? 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 Tajikistan to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle low motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better grasp these interesting new open educational experiments. Educators want to perceive how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this expanding desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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