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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in digital education technology have enabled people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that learning technology institutions are having to consider today because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can participants be assured that lecturers 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 strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Students want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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