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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New developments in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning institutions have to consider today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? 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 Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This new book also studies the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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