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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in blended learning have enabled learners all over the world to take part in online classes. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified 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 strategies are being used by institutions like South Africa to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Everyone wants to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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