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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education technology are enabling people in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? 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 institutions like Kazakhstan to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to better grasp these open educational experiments. Everyone wants to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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