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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in online education have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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