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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in electronic educational technology are enabling people all over the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education institutions are having to deal with now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online 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 Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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