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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest evolvements in electronic educational technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can educators guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively 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 Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To satisfy this expanding need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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