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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in online learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can participants guarantee that instructors 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 different strategies are being used by institutions like Myanmar (Burma) to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This interesting new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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