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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in digital education technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take online classes. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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