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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in e-learning technology enable learners all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations have to consider now that blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes 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 Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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