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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in online education are making it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? 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 Heard Island and McDonald Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp these promising new open education undertakings. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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