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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in learning technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can participants assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? 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 organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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