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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning technology have enabled people all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we assure that lecturers 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 business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Everyone wants to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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