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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New developments in electronic educational technology have enabled learners in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions must deal with today because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions guarantee 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 different business strategies are being used by organizations like Heard Island and McDonald Islands to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to better understand these exciting new open education ventures. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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