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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in elearning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that distance learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Gibraltar to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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