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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education are providing the means for humans in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? 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 Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these fascinating new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this developing demand for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education topics. This book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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