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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning technology are providing the means for learners in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that e-learning technology institutions are considering today because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this growing demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also considers the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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