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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in electronic education technology are empowering people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions have to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is adequate? How can organizations guarantee 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 business strategies are being used by institutions like Cook Islands to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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