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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in online education technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in online courses. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These online MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations are considering today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can students guarantee 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 different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Universities want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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