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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in digital education technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to take part in classes online. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Monaco to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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