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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in electronic education technology make it possible for humans in all parts of the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? 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 Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational ventures. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this increasing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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