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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in elearning are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Luxembourg to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. Academics want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this growing need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This new book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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