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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in blended learning have made it possible for humans in every nation on earth to take online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? 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 organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Researchers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also describes 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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