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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in e-learning have enabled humans all around the world to take online courses. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? 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 edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to understand these new open educational ventures. Professors want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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