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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in online education technology have enabled people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that elearning organizations have to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is passable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and many other participants desire to better grasp these new open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this desideratum for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also researches the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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