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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in learning technology have empowered people all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that distance learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners 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 business models are being used by institutions like Elidaemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also analyzes the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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