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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in elearning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOC classes are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several topics that online education organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? 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 institutions like Reddit to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student 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. Educators and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Trainers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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