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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in elearning are empowering students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by institutions like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand these promising new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This sensational new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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