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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in blended learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that teachers 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 business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Florida to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Scientists want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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