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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take online classes. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations are considering today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can participants ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? 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 organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also talks about the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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