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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning enable people all over the world to be participants in classes online. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with now that blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better comprehend these promising new open educational undertakings. Intellectuals want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also talks about the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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