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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest changes in blended learning technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education institutions must deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants would like to better understand these intriguing new open education ventures. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also articulates the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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