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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning are providing the means for people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that blended learning institutions have to consider today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is respectable? How can participants assure 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 different strategies are being used by organizations like Montenegro to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like low learner motivation and high attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As elearning technology becomes more available there is a demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This thrilling new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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