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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic educational technology enable humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning institutions have to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Rochester to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to understand these compelling new open educational endeavours. Researchers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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