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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in elearning have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to take online courses. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are struggling with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? 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 South Africa to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing need for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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