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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in electronic education technology enable people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? 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 Canada to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these important new open educational endeavours. Everyone wants to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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