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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in online education technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are considering today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? 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 organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to better grasp these promising new open educational endeavours. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this increasing need for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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