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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in elearning technology enable people all around the world to participate 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. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several subjects that online learning organizations are having to struggle with now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we certify that the quality control for these MOOC classes is good? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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