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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators 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 Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education initiatives. Educators want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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