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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in elearning technology enable students all over the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that e-learning organizations have to deal with now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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