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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in distance learning make it possible for humans all over the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning institutions are having to consider now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Facebook to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to better perceive these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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