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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in digital education technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take classes online. MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? 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 Chile to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Instructors want to better understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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