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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in electronic education technology are making it possible for learners all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these open educational ventures. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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