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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that learning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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