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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in online education have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are considering today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by organizations like Vanderbilt University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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