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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in blended learning are providing the means for students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC 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 Coral Sea Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these significant new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this expanding need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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