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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest changes in e-learning technology have empowered people all around the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is good? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses 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 organizations like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these intriguing new open educational ventures. Lecturers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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