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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in elearning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massive open courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations are considering more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality control for these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like Open2Study to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low student motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of these important new open educational undertakings. Public servants want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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