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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in distance learning technology have enabled learners in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers 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 Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this developing demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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