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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in elearning technology have empowered students all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Korea, North to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators manage low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders need to better perceive these exciting new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this need for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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