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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in e-learning are empowering humans all around the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these important new open educational ventures. Researchers want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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