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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in electronic education technology are providing the means for people all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions have to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Comoros to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this expanding demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also investigates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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