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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in online education technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach 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 Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to better grasp these compelling new open educational experiments. Professors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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