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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in distance learning technology are empowering learners all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning institutions are considering in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we ensure that educators 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 different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand these important new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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