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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in online learning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Ireland to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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