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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in digital education technology are empowering humans in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC classes are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions have to consider more than ever because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like Haiti to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive need for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This sensational new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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