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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in blended learning technology have provided the means for humans all over the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with today because online education technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators make sure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Saudi Arabia to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To satisfy this expanding need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This definitive new book also describes the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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