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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in online education have provided the means for learners all over the world to take classes online. These massive online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desideratum for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also talks about the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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