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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in distance learning enable students all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that e-learning organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Iceland to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open educational ventures. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this need for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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