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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in technology-enhanced learning make it possible for people all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational ventures. Professors want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also addresses the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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