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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in e-learning technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning institutions must deal with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by organizations like Michigan State University to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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