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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in distance learning are enabling people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UCSF to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend these promising new open educational initiatives. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This exciting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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