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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in e-learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations have to deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed 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 strategies are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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