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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in distance learning technology have empowered people all around the world to take online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified 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 strategies are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Students want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also deals with the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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