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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online learning technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to take online courses. These MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations have to deal with now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by institutions like University of Minnesota to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better comprehend these fascinating new open education experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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