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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning have made it possible for humans all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are having to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. Universities want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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