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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in e-learning technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? 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 institutions like Davidson College to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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