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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest developments in online learning are enabling people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can we ensure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational ventures. Educators want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive demand for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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