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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in distance learning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOCs are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? 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 institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to better understand these open educational initiatives. Corporations want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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