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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in distance learning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. 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. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can we assure that teachers 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 business strategies are being used by institutions like Myanmar (Burma) to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to understand these new open educational ventures. Universities want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also deals with the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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