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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advancements in e-learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality control for these MOOCs is acceptable? How can organizations be assured 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 Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these interesting new open education endeavours. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this growing desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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