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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning technology have empowered humans in nations all around the world to take part in online classes. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified 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 institutions like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Scientists want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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