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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC classes are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers 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 institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational initiatives. Corporations want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This book also talks about the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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