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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in e-learning technology are providing the means for learners all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? 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 organizations like Michigan State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Academics want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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