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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in electronic educational technology have made it possible for humans all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions are considering today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC 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 Monaco to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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