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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in online education enable learners all over the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Public servants want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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