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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in electronic educational technology are empowering humans in nations all around the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Haiti to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education initiatives. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also describes the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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