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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in e-learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take online classes. These MOOC courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? 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 Peter I Island to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also describes the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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