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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in elearning technology make it possible for learners in all parts of the world to take online classes. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Estonia to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to better understand these compelling new open educational undertakings. Trainers want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This sensational new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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