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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online education technology have provided the means for learners all over the world to take courses via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? 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 University of Florida to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these important new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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