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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in elearning enable students in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. MOOC classes are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education organizations have to consider now that learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Malawi to conduct these massively open online courses? How can teachers deal with low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this need for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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