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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest changes in distance learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to take online classes. These MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can educators ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? 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 organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this increasing desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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