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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. New changes in distance learning technology are enabling students all over the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are considering more than ever because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? 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 Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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