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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in digital education technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with 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 we assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Rice University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants want to better comprehend these exciting new open educational ventures. Professors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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