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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic education technology are making it possible for people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning institutions are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? 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 institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Trainers want to perceive how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive need for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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