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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in online education have enabled people in every nation on earth to take courses online. MOOC classes are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? 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 Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. People want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing need for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This gripping new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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