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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in digital education technology have enabled learners all over the world to participate in online classes. These massive online courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can learners be assured that lecturers 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 strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a necessity to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants want to better perceive these significant new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this developing desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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