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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in learning technology are empowering learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations have to deal with now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can students make sure that teachers 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 business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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