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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in e-learning make it possible for students in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with today because blended learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC 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 institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a growing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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