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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in distance learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. 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. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified 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 institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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