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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. New developments in digital education technology make it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can organizations assure that educators 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 strategies are being used by institutions like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Instructors want to know how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this demand for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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