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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in elearning are enabling people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning organizations are struggling with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these MOOCs is decent? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Morocco to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational ventures. Students want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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