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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in electronic educational technology are empowering people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are struggling with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? 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 Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Academics want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also explores the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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