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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in blended learning technology enable people all around the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC classes are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions are struggling with today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these MOOCs is all right? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified 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 business strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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