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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in electronic educational technology have empowered people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This thrilling new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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