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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education are empowering humans in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive online courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are having to deal with today because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like MOOEC to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to understand these promising new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this need for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This thrilling new book also deals with the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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