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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. New advancements in elearning technology are enabling learners in every nation on earth to take courses online. MOOCs are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? 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 institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This inspiring new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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