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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in online education are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that instructors 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 strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education initiatives. Lecturers want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this demand for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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