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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New developments in elearning have empowered students in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online education organizations have to consider today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? 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 Concordia University Wisconsin to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these fascinating new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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