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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online learning are enabling students in nations all around the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to be more aware of these important new open educational initiatives. Everybody wants to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this growing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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