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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning are enabling learners all over the world to take part in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to be more aware of these open education endeavours. Professors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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