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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in electronic educational technology enable students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with now that blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? 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 Kazakhstan to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand these intriguing new open education undertakings. Everyone wants to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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