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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in blended learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? 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 Duke University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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