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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we make sure that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Davidson College to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a increasing desire to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this expanding desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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