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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in elearning have provided the means for learners in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? 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 Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education endeavours. Everyone wants to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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