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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in online education are providing the means for students all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that blended learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is adequate? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? 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 institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand these compelling new open educational undertakings. People want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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