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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in online education technology are providing the means for students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations make sure 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 Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on low motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational endeavours. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this increasing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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