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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest developments in blended learning are enabling students in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massively open online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive 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 Canada to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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