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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in electronic educational technology have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions are having to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? 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 Rice University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to understand these important new open educational ventures. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This inspiring new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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