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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in distance learning technology have empowered humans all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massive online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to better understand these new open education endeavours. Scholars want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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