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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in online education have empowered learners all over the world to take online courses. These massive open online courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? 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 Wesleyan University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage problems like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Public servants want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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