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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New developments in online education technology make it possible for students in nations all around the world to take part in classes online. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are having to deal with now that blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students ensure that educators 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 Khan Academy to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Teachers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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