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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in elearning have provided the means for people all over the world to take part in online classes. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators certify that the education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? 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 South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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