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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in distance learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology institutions are considering more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified 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 strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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