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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in online education have enabled learners in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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