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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning technology have empowered people all over the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with now that e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed 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 business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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