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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in online education technology enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning organizations are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like Tristan da Cunha to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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