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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online learning have enabled students all around the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations certify that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? 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 institutions like Svalbard to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing need to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open educational endeavours. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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