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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in distance learning technology have empowered students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers make sure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Tristan da Cunha to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp these fascinating new open educational ventures. Scientists want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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