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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New changes in online education technology have provided the means for students all over the world to take online classes. MOOC classes are mostly 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 quite a few topics that online learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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