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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in distance learning make it possible for people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by institutions like Wellesley College to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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