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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online education make it possible for humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with today because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students ensure 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 institutions like Botswana to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desideratum for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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