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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in elearning are enabling learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with now that learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses 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 Papua New Guinea to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of these important new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This thrilling new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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