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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in e-learning technology have empowered students in all parts of the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors 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 strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding demand for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also examines the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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