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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in online education technology are enabling students in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants assure that educators 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 strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a demand to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp these exciting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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