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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in electronic education technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers 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 different strategies are being used by organizations like Ascension to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these important new open educational undertakings. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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