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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in electronic education technology have made it possible for people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Kazakhstan to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open educational undertakings. Everyone wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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