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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in electronic education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? 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 Georgia to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to better perceive these new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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