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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in elearning are providing the means for humans in nations all around the world to take part in classes online. These massive online courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that elearning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants guarantee 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 strategies are being used by organizations like Clipperton Island to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this growing need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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