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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in distance learning are enabling people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning technology organizations are struggling with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Clipperton Island to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants get a handle on low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Scientists want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This sensational new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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