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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in electronic educational technology enable learners all over the world to take part in courses online. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Faroe Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Students want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for knowledge the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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