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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in digital education technology have enabled humans all around the world to take part in courses online. These massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? 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 Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This inspiring new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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