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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations are considering today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Pridnestrovie (Transnistria) to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend these interesting new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this developing need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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