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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in online education are empowering learners all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These massive open courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we assure that educators 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 strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Academics want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also researches the controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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