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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in distance learning technology enable students all over the world to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations assure that educators 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 different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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