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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in e-learning have enabled humans all over the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified 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 models are being used by institutions like Colorado State University-Global Campus to conduct these massively open online courses? How can participants deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education initiatives. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this demand for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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