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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in electronic educational technology enable learners in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online education organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers 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 different business models are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a demand to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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