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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest developments in elearning are enabling humans all around the world to take classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can we ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified 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 business strategies are being used by organizations like British Indian Ocean Territory to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and many other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education initiatives. Professors want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this desideratum for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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