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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education make it possible for people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? 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 organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of these open education undertakings. Everyone wants to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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