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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online learning are enabling people all around the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we certify that educators 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 different business models are being used by institutions like El Salvador to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Educators want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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