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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New developments in e-learning technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are struggling with now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is adequate? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? 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 Ukraine to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this demand for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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