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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning have enabled learners all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions are having to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? 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 Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to better understand these compelling new open educational experiments. Educators want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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