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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in e-learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions are having to deal with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend these promising new open education initiatives. Universities want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education topics. This definitive new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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