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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education technology have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology organizations have to consider now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like The New School to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding need for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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