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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online education technology make it possible for humans in nations all aver the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? 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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this growing demand for data the definitive 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 scholarly new book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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