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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in learning technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? 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 MenaVersity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing demand for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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