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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in e-learning are providing the means for learners in nations all around the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators make sure that the quality of these massive open online courses is adequate? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Syria to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and lots of other participants need to understand these open education ventures. Instructors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This definitive new book also researches the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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