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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in online learning technology make it possible for students all over the world to be participants in online classes. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These online MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? 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 Duke University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better grasp these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This thrilling new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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