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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online education are empowering students in every nation on earth to take online classes. Massive open online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? 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 Brown University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these important new open education endeavours. Public servants want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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