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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in e-learning technology are empowering students in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified 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 Khan Academy to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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