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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in electronic education technology are providing the means for learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? 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 Heard Island and McDonald Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Educators want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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