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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online learning technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can we guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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