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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent developments in learning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? 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 organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a growing need to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these promising new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding demand for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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