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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in e-learning technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Mauritius to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational undertakings. Scholars want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also studies the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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