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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest gains in online learning technology have provided the means for students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning institutions must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Academics want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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