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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in distance learning technology have made it possible for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of these important new open education ventures. Scholars want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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