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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in e-learning technology make it possible for people all over the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology institutions are considering today because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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