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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in electronic education technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations have to deal with now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality control for these MOOC classes is all right? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? 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 institutions like Guyana to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Students want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To meet this crescive need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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