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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in technology-enhanced learning enable students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? 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 Renton Technical College to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding 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 educational resource issues. This exciting new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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