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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in learning technology are empowering students in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that instructors 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 institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more available there is a growing desire to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants desire to understand these important new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This book also addresses the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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