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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOC classes are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning organizations have to consider more than ever because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators certify that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like WizIQ to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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