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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern developments in e-learning make it possible for humans all around the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Myanmar (Burma) to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also studies the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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