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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education have empowered people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students 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 variety of topics that online education institutions are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? 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 institutions like British Virgin Islands to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these new open educational ventures. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding desire for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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