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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? 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 institutions like University of California, San Diego to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. People want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding need for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also investigates the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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