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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in elearning have enabled people in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. These online MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online 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 Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education ventures. Intellectuals want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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