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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning have made it possible for learners in nations all aver the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with more than ever because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is decent? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? 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 Estonia to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this developing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This inspiring new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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