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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in online education technology are empowering people all over the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online education institutions are having to attend to more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? 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 organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to better understand these promising new open education endeavours. Professors want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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