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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in distance learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? 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 Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to understand these intriguing new open education ventures. Scientists want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This book also reviews the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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