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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can participants be assured 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 institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing demand for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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