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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in online education are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is adequate? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Pitcairn Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a need to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants need to better understand these interesting new open educational ventures. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this developing demand for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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