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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in technology-enhanced learning have enabled students in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students make sure 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 different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Colorado Boulder to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Professors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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