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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in electronic educational technology have enabled humans all over the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can we ensure 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 business models are being used by organizations like University of Colorado System to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to better grasp these compelling new open educational experiments. Trainers want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also addresses the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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