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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in digital education technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning organizations are having to consider now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Guinea-Bissau to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp these intriguing new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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