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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in electronic education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take online courses. These MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp these promising new open education ventures. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also addresses the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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