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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in distance learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions have to consider now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? 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 Macau to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this demand for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also investigates the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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