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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in learning technology enable humans in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions have to consider more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Open2Study to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this increasing need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This amazing new book also deals with the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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