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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in elearning have made it possible for students in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can educators handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a growing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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