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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in e-learning enable students in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? 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 Sweden to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this developing demand for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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