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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in distance learning technology are enabling learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can we ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? 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 organizations like Syria to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these open education experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This thrilling new book also deals with the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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