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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in learning technology have made it possible for humans in all parts of the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can participants ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? 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 organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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