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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in electronic education technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that elearning technology organizations have to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online 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 organizations like Cyprus to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of these significant new open educational initiatives. Everybody wants to understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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