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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in elearning have made it possible for people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Everybody wants to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This sensational new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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