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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in distance learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take courses online. MOOC classes are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is acceptable? How can participants assure that lecturers 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 organizations like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants need to be more aware of these new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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