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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in digital education technology have made it possible for humans all over the world to take courses online. MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with today because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can we make sure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Reunion to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand these promising new open education initiatives. Teachers want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive need for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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