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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New developments in online learning are enabling people all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC classes are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning institutions are considering in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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