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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new evolvements in elearning technology make it possible for people all over the world to take courses online. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that elearning institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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