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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in online learning enable students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that e-learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants certify that instructors 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 strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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