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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in technology-enhanced learning are making it possible for people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can learners guarantee that instructors 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 strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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