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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of these interesting new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This book also deals with the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Education