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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in blended learning technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that instructors 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 business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this developing need for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also studies the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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