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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in electronic education technology enable students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Students want to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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