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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest evolvements in e-learning enable people all over the world to participate in online courses. These massive open courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? 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 NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to better perceive these significant new open education ventures. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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