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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in elearning technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many topics that online learning technology organizations are dealing with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? 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 Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of these new open education undertakings. Educators want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This exciting new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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