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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in electronic education technology enable humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning organizations are struggling with now that online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? 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 Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing need for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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