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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in e-learning technology enable learners in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to deal with now that learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Ireland to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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