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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning enable people all over the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive these fascinating new open education undertakings. Corporations want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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