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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions have to consider now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the quality control for these MOOC courses is good? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed 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 business strategies are being used by institutions like Cook Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Scholars want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also talks about the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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