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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in learning technology have provided the means for learners all around the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like One Month to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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