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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in online education have empowered people in nations all around the world to take classes online. MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions are considering today because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? 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 organizations like British Virgin Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing desire for information the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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