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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in distance learning technology enable students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is respectable? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC 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 institutions like Australia to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To satisfy this increasing desire for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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