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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in e-learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like Pitcairn Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these exciting new open education experiments. People want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this crescive demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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