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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in distance learning are enabling people all around the world to take part in classes online. These massive open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? 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 Jordan to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This gripping new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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