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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in online education have enabled people all over the world to take online courses. MOOC classes are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? 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 organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Trainers want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this developing desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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