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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in distance learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of these interesting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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