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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest evolvements in elearning have empowered people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations have to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? 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 Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive need for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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