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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in online learning technology enable people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Iran to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education initiatives. Students want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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