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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest advances in elearning are empowering students in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations have to consider today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is adequate? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? 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 Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this growing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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