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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning technology are empowering learners all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed 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 different business strategies are being used by institutions like Bolivia to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants want to be more aware of these important new open education experiments. Public servants want to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This amazing new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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