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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in online education enable people in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. These massive online courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are considering in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by organizations like San Diego State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing demand for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also researches the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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