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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in blended learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp these promising new open education initiatives. Students want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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