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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advances in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take online classes. These online MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions must deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? 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 UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend these fascinating new open educational experiments. Instructors want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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