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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in distance learning technology are providing the means for learners in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified 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 strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing demand for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also explores the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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