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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in distance learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to take online classes. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations certify that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by institutions like MOOEC to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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