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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in electronic education technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations make sure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Belgium to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To respond to this expanding desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This thrilling new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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