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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in learning technology have made it possible for learners all around the world to take online courses. MOOCs are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that elearning organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we assure that teachers 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 business strategies are being used by organizations like Somalia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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