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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in online education technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach 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 institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of these compelling new open education ventures. Public servants want to grasp how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this developing demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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