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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in elearning technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These MOOC classes are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators 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 strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can we deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Teachers want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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