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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education enable learners all around the world to take part in courses online. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants certify that the training provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed 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 different business strategies are being used by organizations like South Ossetia to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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