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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in digital education technology are enabling humans in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning organizations have to deal with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions make sure that educators 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 strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants would like to be more aware of these interesting new open education experiments. Scientists want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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