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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in electronic education technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These massively open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations have to deal with now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is good? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? 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 Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a need to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these important new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this growing demand for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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