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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in elearning technology have made it possible for learners all over the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC 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 OpenupEd to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these promising new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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