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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education technology are empowering humans all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that e-learning technology institutions are having to consider now that online learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants want to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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