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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these promising new open educational endeavours. Teachers want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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