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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in e-learning are enabling people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions be assured that the education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by organizations like The Ohio State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education experiments. Scientists want to know how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this growing need for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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