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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in e-learning are empowering students all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online 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 Puerto Rico to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Educators want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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