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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in elearning enable humans in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that elearning organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the quality control for these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Panama to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can stakeholders manage issues like poor motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also addresses the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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