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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in online education are enabling humans all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with now that learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Vietnam to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education undertakings. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also addresses the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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