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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in elearning have provided the means for humans all over the world to take courses online. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations are having to consider today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like Norfolk Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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