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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in learning technology are empowering students all over the world to take classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations must deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive 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 models are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational experiments. Trainers want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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