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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online learning technology are empowering students in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that elearning organizations are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? 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 State University of New York to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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