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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in online learning have made it possible for humans all around the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach 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 organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp these open educational ventures. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also studies the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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