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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations are struggling with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? 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 organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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