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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can we certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? 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 Rwaq to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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