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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in distance learning technology have provided the means for learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Somalia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can organizations manage issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Universities want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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