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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in digital education technology make it possible for people all over the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? 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 Aruba to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp these important new open educational ventures. Corporations want to know how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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