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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in e-learning enable students in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. These MOOC classes are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions are having to consider today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Israel to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand these important new open education experiments. Instructors want to comprehend how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this expanding desire for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This book also describes the most important 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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