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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in blended learning technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to take part in classes online. These massive open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed 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 different strategies are being used by institutions like Papua New Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive these promising new open education experiments. Trainers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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