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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in online education are making it possible for humans all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants assure that lecturers 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 business strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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