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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in electronic educational technology are making it possible for learners all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can educators make sure that the education provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Educators want to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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