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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in electronic education technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can we assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? 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 Eliademy to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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