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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New developments in electronic educational technology are making it possible for learners in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. These MOOC classes are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that distance learning institutions are having to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers certify that the training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? 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 institutions like Hong Kong to conduct these MOOC classes? How can institutions deal with inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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