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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in elearning technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? 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 institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive need for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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