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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? 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 organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to be more aware of these interesting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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