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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in electronic education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations have to consider today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can institutions handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Academics want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also researches the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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