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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology have provided the means for students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? 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 Barbados to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle issues like poor motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational undertakings. Researchers want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This thrilling new book also examines 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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