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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in digital education technology have made it possible for learners in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? 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 FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage low motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Scientists want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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