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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in elearning enable people in nations all around the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is adequate? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified 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 institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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