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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in distance learning have enabled people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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