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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning have enabled humans in every nation on earth to take online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like poor motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of these intriguing new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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