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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants certify that the quality of these MOOC classes is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Palmyra Atoll to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Professors want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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