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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in elearning technology are making it possible for students all around the world to participate in online classes. These MOOCs are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can we be assured 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 strategies are being used by institutions like Barbados to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational ventures. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also researches the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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