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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in online education technology have enabled learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by institutions like Kazakhstan to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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