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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online education technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions are considering more than ever because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we ensure 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 business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants would like to better perceive these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This gripping new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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