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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in e-learning technology are providing the means for students in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes 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 Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Universities want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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