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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in distance learning are empowering people in nations all around the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? 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 University of South Florida to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. People want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This inspiring new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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