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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in learning technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like American Samoa to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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