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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in electronic education technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can educators assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? 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 organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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