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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in online learning enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified 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 strategies are being used by organizations like Kyrgyzstan to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these new open educational undertakings. Researchers want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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