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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in distance learning technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these important new open education ventures. Academics want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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