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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in digital education technology are enabling students in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? 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 Wake Island to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle low motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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