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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Saudi Arabia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing demand for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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