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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. New changes in online education are providing the means for learners all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? 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 institutions like Kyrgyzstan to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle low motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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