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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in distance learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions have to consider today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can teachers make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? 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 Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to better grasp these interesting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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