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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in distance learning technology are enabling learners all over the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that e-learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? 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 Ball State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders need to better comprehend these compelling new open education ventures. Researchers want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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