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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in distance learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can participants assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can learners ensure that instructors 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 different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational initiatives. Scientists want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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