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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online education have enabled learners in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online 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 massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to better understand these open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how these MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this increasing need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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