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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in online education technology have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified 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 different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these fascinating new open education experiments. Students want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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