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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in online education technology have empowered people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because online education technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Netherlands to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also explores the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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