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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning have made it possible for learners in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Meetup to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational ventures. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive need for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also describes the key 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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