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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in technology-enhanced learning have made it possible for students in nations all aver the world to be participants in classes online. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can educators assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed 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 business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Washington to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Scientists want to grasp how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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