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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. New developments in online education technology have provided the means for learners all over the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified 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 Renton Technical College to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. People want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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