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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education enable people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations are considering in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students be assured that educators 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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to better understand these intriguing new open education ventures. Teachers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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